Oct 19 Watch Boston Group Helps Homeowners ‘Stand Up, Fight Back’ Against Foreclosure Paul Solman reports on a Boston non-profit group that is helping families and homeowners stay in their homes in the face of foreclosure. This is the second in an occasional series on the mortgage crisis. Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch Faulty Paperwork Prompts Deepening Foreclosure Problem Foreclosures are mounting and attorneys general have launched an investigation into claims of faulty lender paperwork. Paul Solman reports. Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch ‘California Is a Place’ Still Reeling From Recession Filmmakers Drea Cooper and Zack Canepari looked at California foreclosures through a different lens by concentrating on the crisis in some off-beat places. Continue watching
Feb 18 Obama Unveils $75 Billion Mortgage Plan By PBS News Hour One day after signing a $787 billion stimulus bill into law, President Barack Obama outlined a $75 billion plan to help stem foreclosures, which is at the heart of the nation's deepening economic woes. Continue reading
Aug 07 Watch Housing Market Decline Impacts First-time Buyers, Lenders America's shifting housing market is having a ripple effect on buyers of different income levels and causing some mortgage companies to close. A professor and a market journalist explain the problems with the current housing market. Continue watching
Feb 26 Watch Program to Help New Orleans Homeowners Moving Slowly The Road Home program was granted $7.5 billion by the federal government to help New Orleans homeowners rebuild. But of the 109,000 families who have applied, only 1,300 homeowners have received anything. The NewsHour reports on the reconstruction process. Continue watching
May 09 Watch Post-Katrina Home Insurance Hard to Get Nine months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed homes in Mississippi and Louisiana, real estate agents and residents of the area are having big problems obtaining homeowners insurance. Continue watching